Right now, I have a long, and non-reusable peice of code that builds a power point presentation for me. I was thinking about how I can make it better so that as my project evolves / changes, I have to do minimal re-writing.

I would like to make a subroutine that takes certain arguments, and creates my slides for me, for instance, I would like to be able to pass something like this:

1.  SLIDE #1, TYPE = ppBLAHBLAH, Title = ...
    a.  Element #1:
       1.  Type = picture
       2.  path to picture
       3.  parameter 1, etc..
    b.  Element #2:  
       1.  type = text box
       2.  text...
       3. parameter, etc...
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What is the best data structure to use to accomplish this goal? Can I make this with a hash of hashes?

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